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Manali: A 33-year-old Russian tourist, who was walking from Old Manali to Manali town via Dhungri village on intervening night of Thursday and Friday was allegedly gang raped by two unidentified men in the reserved forest.The Russian woman lodged a police complaint about the gang rape early on Friday morning. The survivor, who was walking accompanied by a Nepalese man, said in her complaint that she had taken the wrong path while walking from Old Manali to Manali town by taking a short-cut via Dhungri at 12.30 am on Friday. Both the accused will be behind the bars very soon,” the SP said.OLD CASESOn May 30 this year, a 30-year-old Japanese tourist on a solo holiday to Manali was raped by a taxi driver. They threatened the Nepalese man, who was forced to flee, and dragged her inside the forest between Dhungri and Manali town and raped her, the complaint added.The survivor, according to sources, is a research scholar and had arrived in Manali a few days back. Suddenly, two unidentified men started chasing her and her companion..